This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Emotions are the colors of the soul.

Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.

The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

You are free to love without an agenda

You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.

I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.

The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.

Nothing in the universe is impermeable to the flow of love.

Keep the enthusiasm of your youth and treasure the wisdom of old age.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom.

On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge.

I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.

I'm identified as a New York actor, I sound like I'm from New York, and I couldn't be more proud of it.

People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or famous, and they think, 'Oh God, I'm not gonna get the part.

The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.

And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.